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The relation between the long-term variations in the thunderstorm VLF radio noise intensity and solar activity in 1979–2006
has been studied. The sunspot number (the Wolf number) was used as a parameter characterizing solar activity. The intensity
of VLF noise registered in Yakutsk characterizes thunderstorm activity in Eastern Siberia (0100–0500 UT) and in the African
thunderstorm center (1300–1700 UT). Using the results of a correlation analysis, it has been found that thunderstorm activity
in Eastern Siberia and in the African world centre is in antiphase with a change in the sunspot number. The highest anticorrelation
coefficients between solar activity and thunderstorm discharge intensity were obtained for thunderstorms in Eastern Siberia.
In this case the maximal correlation coefficients (R = −0.59 and −0.75) were obtained for the average monthly values of the VLF radio noise intensity in August, measured at 0400
UT and 1600 UT, respectively. 相似文献
2.
A detailed representation of variations of the total solar flux I has been obtained by analyzing the regular measurements of this flux by the Nimbus-7 and other spacecrafts. In particular,
quasi-biennial variations (QBVs) of the monthly average value 〈I〉 and standard deviation sI within a month interval have been revealed. It is remarkable that the QBVs of sI almost coincide in shape with the QBVs of many solar activity and ionospheric indices, and the QBVs of 〈I〉 are almost in antiphase with the variations of sI. The manifestation of the QBVs of 〈I〉 in some processes on the Earth has been already revealed. A relation between the QBVs of 〈I〉 for solar radiation (according to the Nimbus-7 and ACRIM-2 data) and the QBVs of the zonal stratospheric wind near the equator,
as well as the QBVs of the Earth’s rotation velocity, has been found. Many of the considered QBV-processes on the Earth are
seemingly attributed to the variations of the total solar flux. 相似文献
3.
The solar magnetic field B s at the Earth’s projection onto the solar-wind source surface has been calculated for each day over a long time interval (1976–2004). These data have been compared with the daily mean solar wind (SW) velocities and various components of the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) near the Earth. The statistical analysis has revealed a rather close relationship between the solar-wind parameters near the Sun and near the Earth in the periods without significant sporadic solar and interplanetary disturbances. Empirical numerical models have been proposed for calculating the solar-wind velocity, IMF intensity, and IMF longitudinal and B z components from the solar magnetic data. In all these models, the B s value plays the main role. It is shown that, under quiet or weakly disturbed conditions, the variations in the geomagnetic activity index Ap can be forecasted for 3–5 days ahead on the basis of solar magnetic observations. Such a forecast proves to be more reliable than the forecasts based on the traditional methods. 相似文献
4.
The spatial and temporal structure of the effects of solar activity (SA) and galactic cosmic ray (GCR) flux variations on the lower atmosphere circulation has been studied based on NCEP/NCAR reanalysis archive for 1948–2006 and MSLP (Climatic Research Unit, UK) data for 1873–2000. It has been shown that the GCR effects on pressure variations are characterized by a strong latitudinal and regional dependence, which is determined by specific features of the tropospheric circulation in the studied regions. The distribution of the correlation coefficients for mean yearly values of atmospheric pressure with the GCR flux intensity is closely related to the position of the main climatological fronts. The periodic (∼60 years) changes in the correlation sign of the pressure at high and middle latitudes with Wolf numbers have been revealed. It has been suggested that the changes of the sign of SA/GCR effects on atmospheric pressure are caused by the changes of the macrocirculation epochs, which, in turn, may be related to large-scale processes on the Sun. 相似文献
5.
The correlation between total ozone content lower thermosphere horizontal wind parameters, and standard indices of solar activity
and geomagnetic activity has been studied. The satellite measurements of TOC for five observatories in Central Europe and
the lower thermosphere wind measurements for Collm observatory (Germany) were used for 1996–2003. The quasi-periodic structure
of these variations and the correlation between the corresponding periodograms were also studied. The quantitative evaluation
of the statistically significant correlations and common periodicities were revealed. 相似文献
6.
In situ measurements of the solar wind largely cover more than two solar magnetic activity cycles, namely 20 and 21. This is a very appealing opportunity to study the influence of the activity cycle on the behaviour of the solar wind parameters. As a matter of fact, many authors so far have studied this topic comparing the long-term magnetic field and plasma averages. However, when the average values are evaluated on a data sample whose duration is comparable with (or even longer than) the solar rotation period we lose information about the contribution due to the fast and the slow solar wind components. Thus, discriminating in velocity plays a key role in understanding solar cycle effects on the solar wind. Based on these considerations, we performed a separate analysis for fast and slow wind, respectively. In particular, we found that: (a) fast wind carries a slightly larger momentum flux density at 1 AU, probably due to dynamic stream-stream interaction; (b) proton number density in slow wind is more cycle dependent than in fast wind and decreases remarkably across solar maximum; (c) fast wind generally carries a magnetic field intensity stronger than that carried by the slow wind; (d) we found no evidence for a positive correlation between velocity and field intensity as predicted by some theories of solar wind acceleration; (e) our results would support an approximately constant divergence of field lines associated with corotating high-velocity streams. 相似文献
7.
《Journal of Atmospheric and Solar》2002,64(5-6):593-599
The relativistic electron fluxes of the Earth's outer radiation belt are subjected to strong temporal variations. The most prominent changes are initiated by fast solar wind streams impinging upon the magnetosphere, which often also cause enhanced substorm activity and magnetic storms. Using 4 years of data from the particle detector REM aboard the UK satellite Strv-1b in a GTO, we investigated the relation between these different appearances of geomagnetic activity. A typical sequence is that there is a drop in the relativistic electron intensity during the main phase of the magnetic storm and a successive enhancement during the recovery phase which sometimes leads to much higher than pre-storm fluxes. Whereas the flux drop is well correlated with the magnetic storm intensity and is mainly due to the deceleration and loss of particles caused by the ring-current-induced magnetic field changes, there is only a bad correlation between the post-storm electron flux and Dst. As we show here, it is much more the level of substorm activity during the whole event which determines the size of the flux enhancements. 相似文献
8.
This paper addresses observed variations in cosmic ray (CR) intensity, the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF), the solar
wind (SW) turbulence energy spectrum, and the energy spectrum index of Forbush decreases in the 20th–23rd solar cycles. Unlike
the previous three cycles, there are some distinctive features in the 23rd solar cycle. The entire cycle shows a considerable
increase in the index of the SW turbulence energy spectrum inclination and an substantially harder energy spectrum of Forbush
decreases. The anomalously high flux of high-energy CRs and the anomalously low level of the IMF strength were recorded at
the end of this cycle. The conclusion has been made that such unusual CR behavior is associated with a decrease in the degree
of scattering in the resonance interaction between CR fluxes and SW inhomogeneities with spatial scales of ∼1012 cm. 相似文献
9.
The excitation of long-period irregular pulsations in the 2.0–6.0 mHz range (ipcl pulsation series) in the Earth’s magnetosphere, depending on the set of solar wind plasma and IMF parameters, has been studied experimentally. It has been found that burst regimes are observed when the solar wind dynamic pressure and velocity are higher than V ∼ 320 km/s and P ∼ 1 nPa, respectively. It has been indicated that the dynamics of the ipcl pulsation intensity and fractal structure largely depend on the solar wind plasma velocity and magnetic pressure, respectively. An analysis of the relationship between the appearance of ipcl pulsation burst series and large-scale solar wind streams and polar coronal holes made it possible to identify solar geoeffective regions, which can cause solar wind streams and Alfvén waves that promote the generation of burst regimes. On the basis of the studied conditions of the interplanetary medium, favourable for the excitation of ipcl pulsation burst series, and generalization of morphological patterns, the possible mechanisms of their generation have been considerded. It has been demonstrated that ipcl burst regimes are most probably generated as wind instability in hydrodynamics (the Miles-Phillips mechanism). The Miles-Phillips instability is related to different factors in the solar wind stream, among which turbulence, the threshold velocity value, and pressure fluctuations play a defining role. Precisely these regularities are typical of the ipcl burst regime generation conditions. 相似文献
10.
Magnetohydrodynamic compressive fluctuations of the interplanetary plasma in the region from 0.3 to 1 AU have been characterized in terms of their polytropic index. Following Chandrasekhar’s approach to polytropic fluids, this index has been determined through a fit of the observed variations of density and temperature. At least three different classes of fluctuations have been identified: (1) variations at constant thermal pressure, in low-speed solar wind and without a significant dependence on distance, (2) adiabatic variations, mainly close to 1 AU and without a relevant dependence on wind speed, and (3) variations at nearly constant density, in fast wind close to 0.3 AU. Variations at constant thermal pressure are probably a subset of the ensemble of total-pressure balanced structures, corresponding to cases in which the magnetic field magnitude does not vary appreciably throughout the structure. In this case the pressure equilibrium has to be assured by its thermal component only. The variations may be related to small flow-tubes with approximately the same magnetic-field intensity, convected by the wind in conditions of pressure equilibrium. This feature is mainly observed in low-velocity solar wind, in agreement with the magnetic topology (small open flow-tubes emerging through an ensemble of closed structures) expected for the source region of slow wind. Variations of adiabatic type may be related to magnetosonic waves excited by pressure imbalances between contiguous flow-tubes. Such imbalances are probably built up by interactions between wind flows with different speeds in the spiral geometry induced by the solar rotation. This may account for the fact that they are mainly found at a large distance from the sun. Temperature variations at almost constant density are mostly found in fast flows close to the sun. These are the solar wind regions with the best examples of incompressible behaviour. They are characterized by very stable values for particle density and magnetic intensity, and by fluctuations of Alfvénic type. It is likely that temperature fluctuations in these regions are a remnant of thermal features in the low solar atmosphere. In conclusion, the polytropic index appears to be a useful tool to understand the nature of the compressive turbulence in the interplanetary plasma, as far as the frozen-in magnetic field does not play a crucial role. 相似文献
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Saskatoon (52° N, 107°W) medium frequency (MF) radar data from 1979 to 1993 have been analyzed to investigate the climatology of irregular wind components in the height region 60–100 km. This component is usually treated in terms of internal gravity waves (IGW). Three different band-pass filters have been used to separate the intensities of IGWs having periods 0.2-2.5; 1.5-6 and 2–10 h, respectively. Height, seasonal and inter-annual variations of IGW intensities, anisotropy and predominant directions of propagation are investigated. Mean over 14 years’ seasonal variation of the intensity of long-period IGWs shows a dominant annual component with winter maximum and summer minimum. Seasonal variations of the intensity of short-period waves have a strong semi-annual component as well, which forms a secondary maximum in summer. Predominant azimuths of long-period IGWs are generally zonal, though they vary with season. For short-period IGWs, the predominant azimuth is closer to the meridional direction. Anisotropy of IGW intensity is larger in summer, winter and at lower altitudes. The IGW intensity shows apparent correlation with both solar and geomagnetic activity. In most cases, this correlation appears to be negative. The variations versus solar activity is larger for longer-period IGW. Possible reasons and consequences of the observed climatological variations of IGW intensity are discussed. 相似文献
12.
V. I. Larkina 《Geomagnetism and Aeronomy》2009,49(8):1260-1263
The results of recording the intensity of low-frequency electromagnetic emissions at altitudes of the outer ionosphere based
on satellite data at various levels of solar activity have been investigated. The intensity of low-frequency emissions has
been found to depend on the solar activity, i.e., the spatial noise characteristics vary. Mean values of the noise amplitude
variations at various phases of the solar activity cycle are presented. The low-frequency emissions are shown to serve as
a source of information about the processes in the surface plasma; in particular, the state of the radiation belts is judged
from them. The noise carries information about the variations in the particle fluxes intruding into the Earth’s plasmasphere
under various solar activity conditions and about the magnetospheric plasma variations related to the growth of solar activity.
In other words, the electromagnetic low-frequency noise can be a peculiar kind of indicator of the solar activity and the
state of the magnetosphere. 相似文献
13.
Based on the DMSP F6 and F7 satellite observations, the characteristics of precipitating particles in different auroral precipitation regions of the dayside sector have been studied depending on the solar wind plasma density. Under quiet geomagnetic conditions (|AL| < 100 nT and B z > 0), a considerable increase in the fluxes of precipitating ions is observed in the zones of structured auroral oval precipitation (AOP) and soft diffuse precipitation (SDP). A decrease in the mean energy of precipitating ions is observed simultaneously with the flux growth in these regions. The global pattern of variations in the fluxes of precipitating ions, which shows the regions of effective penetration of solar wind particles into the magnetosphere at a change in the solar wind density from 2 to 20 cm?3, has been constructed. The maximal flux variation (ΔJ i = 1.8 · 107 cm?2 s?1, i.e., 3.5% of an increase in the solar wind particle flux) is observed in the SDP region on the dayside of the Earth. The dependence of precipitating ion fluxes in the low-latitude boundary layer (LLBL), dayside polar cusp, and mantle on the solar wind density at positive and negative values of the IMF B z component has been studied. In the cusp region, an increase in the precipitating ion flux is approximately 17% of an increase in the solar wind density. The IMF southward turning does not result in an appreciable increase in the ion precipitation fluxes either in the cusp or in the mantle. This fact can indicate that the reconnection of the geomagnetic field with southward IMF is not the most effective mechanism for penetration of solar wind particles into these regions. 相似文献
14.
The characteristics of dayside auroras during the large (16–24 nT) positive values of the IMF B
z
component, observed on January 14, 1988, during the interaction between the Earth’s magnetosphere and the body of the interplanetary
magnetic cloud, have been studied based on the optical observations on Heiss Island. A wide band of diffuse red luminosity
with an intensity of 1–2 kilorayleigh (kR) was observed during 6 h in the interval 1030–1630 MLT at latitudes higher than
75° CGL. Rayed auroral arcs, the brightness of which in the 557.7 nm emission sharply increased to 3–7 kR in the postnoon
sector immediately after the polarity reversal of the IMF B
y
component from positive to negative, were continuously registered within the band. Bright auroral arcs were observed at the
equatorward edge of red luminosity. It has been found out that the red auroral intensity increases and the band equatorward
boundary shifts to lower latitudes with increasing solar wind dynamic pressure. However, a direct proportional dependence
of the variations in the auroral features on the dynamic pressure variations has not been found. It has been concluded that
the source of bright discrete auroras is located in the region of the low-latitude boundary layer (LLBL) on closed geomagnetic
field lines. The estimated LLBL thickness is ∼3 R
e
. It has been concluded that the intensity of the dayside red band depends on the solar wind plasma density, whereas the position
of the position equatorward boundary depends on the dynamic pressure value and its variations. 相似文献
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Geomagnetic storms and substorms develop under strong control of the solar wind. This is demonstrated by the fact that the geomagnetic activity indices Dst and AE can be predicted from the solar wind alone. A consequence of the strong control by a common source is that substorm and storm indices tend to be highly correlated. However, a part of this correlation is likely to be an effect of internal magnetospheric processes, such as a ring-current modulation of the solar wind-AE relation. The present work extends previous studies of nonlinear AE predictions from the solar wind. It is examined whether the AE predictions are modulated by the Dst index.This is accomplished by comparing neural network predictions from Dst and the solar wind, with predictions from the solar wind alone. Two conclusions are reached: (1) with an optimal set of solar-wind data available, the AE predictions are not markedly improved by the Dst input, but (2) the AE predictions are improved by Dst if less than, or other than, the optimum solar-wind data are available to the net. It appears that the solar wind-AE relation described by an optimized neural net is not significantly modified by the magnetosphere’s Dst state. When the solar wind alone is used to predict AE, the correlation between predicted and observed AE is 0.86, while the prediction residual is nearly uncorrelated to Dst. Further, the finding that Dst can partly compensate for missing information on the solar wind, is of potential importance in operational forecasting where gaps in the stream of real time solar-wind data are a common occurrence. 相似文献
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G. A. Mikhailova Yu. M. Mikhailov O. V. Kapustina S. E. Smirnov 《Geomagnetism and Aeronomy》2010,50(6):814-823
We have performed a spectral analysis of variations in the E
z
component of a quasistatic electric field in the atmospheric surface layer in a wide band of internal gravity waves (from
5 min to 3 h) for quiet and seismically active conditions as well as high thunderstorm activity. Observational data of the
field for September, 1999 and August–September, 2002, were used. It has been shown that, if there are no thunderstorms or
earthquakes, the background spectrum includes oscillations with maxima at periods of T ∼ 1.8 and 1 h, 40, 30, 15, and 10–13 min. Their intensity in the range of periods of 0.5–3.0 h is two or more orders of magnitude
higher than the intensity of maxima in the range of 5–30 min. Before earthquakes, with anomalies in diurnal variations of
field intensity, there is a tendency of increased background spectrum at maxima noted there. In both ranges of oscillation
periods, the spectral intensity increases by one to one and a half orders of magnitude. Under high thunderstorm activity,
the variability is higher as compared to the spectra of earthquake precursors by both locations of maxima and their intensity.
The intensity of maxima exceeds the maxima on the eve of earthquakes one to one and a half orders of magnitude in the range
of periods 0.5–3.0 h and two and more orders of magnitude in the range of periods 5–30 min. 相似文献
17.
I. N. Myagkova M. I. Panasyuk Yu. I. Denisov V. V. Kalegayev A. V. Bogomolov V. O. Barinova D. A. Parunakyan L. I. Starostin 《Geomagnetism and Aeronomy》2011,51(7):897-901
The study of variations in the electron flux in the outer Earth radiation belt (ERB) and their correlations with solar processes
is one of the important problems in the experiment with the Electron-M-Peska instrument onboard the CORONAS-Photon solar observatory.
Data on relativistic and subrelativistic electron fluxes obtained by the Electron-M-Peska in 2009 have been used to study
the outer ERB dynamics at the solar minimum. Increases in outer ERB relativistic electron fluxes, observed at an height of
550 km after weak magnetic disturbances induced by high-velocity solar wind arriving to the Earth, have been analyzed. The
geomagnetic disturbances induced by the high-velocity solar wind and that resulted in electron flux variations were insignificant:
there were no considerable storms and substorms during that period; however, several polar ground-based stations observed
an increase in wave activity. An assumption has been made that the wave activity caused the variations in relativistic electron
fluxes. 相似文献
18.
B. Tsegmed 《Geomagnetism and Aeronomy》2011,51(8):1138-1145
The spatio-temporal evolution of geomagnetic pulsation bursts at frequencies of 1–3 Hz, observed at the Mondy (MLT ≈ 1200;
Mlat = 46.8°; L = 2.16) and Borok (MLT ≈ 0820; Mlat = 54.0°; L = 2.94) midlatitude observatories and Lovozero auroral observatory (MLT ≈ 0820; Mlat = 64.2°; L = 5.36), has been studied. The considered bursts were registered in daytime sector of the magnetosphere after sudden impulses
(SIs) caused by dramatic increases in the solar wind dynamic pressure and registered on board the WIND satellite. The SI onset
time corresponds to the Sc* time shown in the Geomagnetic Indices Bulletin. The possible relationship between the excitation of these bursts and the variations in the particle partial density in the
range of energies 0.03–45 keV per unit charge has been studied. The bursts were registered on board the LANL geosynchronous
satellites. A comparison of the particle partial density variations measured on the satellites and the variation temperature
anisotropy (A = T⊥/T‖ − 1) with the variations in the pulsation burst amplitude on the ground indicated that the partial density maximum and the
minimum (A ≤ 0) of the electron temperature anisotropy index in the vicinity of local noon coincide in time with the pulsation generation
instant. A comparison of the electron partial density variations on the LANL-1994 and LANL-97A geosynchronous satellites spaced
in longitude and the spatio-temporal variations in the development of bursts make it possible to assume that 1–3 Hz geomagnetic
pulsations are excited in the vicinity of local noon and subsequently propagate along the ionospheric waveguide. 相似文献
19.
The effect of the mutual orientation of the Poynting vector P of the electromagnetic energy density in the solar wind and the vector M of the Earth’s magnetic moment (taking into account its orbital and diurnal motions) on the geomagnetic activity has been
examined for the first time using the measurements of the solar wind parameters on the Earth orbit in 1963–2005. The component
P
m of the vector P along the vector M is shown to have a pronounced annual variation with the extrema in November and May and a diurnal variation with the extrema
at ∼6 and 18 UT. The phases of the variations are shown to be determined only by the geometric parameters and are independent
of the sign of the sector structure of the interplanetary magnetic field. The experimental data on the planetary and high-latitude
geomagnetic activity, which is a response to changes in the orientation of P relative to M, are presented. The power of the sources of the electromagnetic energy of the solar wind during strong geomagnetic disturbances
is also estimated. 相似文献
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Spatial-temporal and spectral features of ground geomagnetic pulsations in the frequency range of 1–5 mHz at the initial phase of a strong magnetic storm of the 24th cycle of solar activity (August 5–6, 2011, with a Dst-variation in the storm maximum of ?110 nT) are analyzed. Large opposite in sign amplitudes of variations in IMF parameters (from ?20 to +20 nT) at a high velocity of the solar wind (～650 km/s) accompanied by intense bursts in solar-wind density (up to ～50 cm?3) were distinctive feature of interplanetary medium conditions causing the storm. Geomagnetic Pi3 pulsations global in longitude and latitude and in-phase in the middle and equatorial latitudes were found. The onset of pulsation generation was caused by a pulse of dynamic pressure of the solar wind (～20 nPa), i.e., by a considerable compression of the magnetosphere. The maximum (2–3 mHz) in the amplitude spectrum of near-equatorial pulsations coincided with the maximum of pulsations in the daytime polar cap. After the next jump of the dynamic pressure of the solar wind (～35 nPa), an additional maximum appeared in the pulsation spectrum in the frequency band of ～3.5–4.5 mHz. Global pulsations suddenly stopped after a sharp decrease in the solar-wind dynamic pressure and corresponding extension of the magnetosphere. The obtained results are compared with the time dynamics of the position and shape of the plasmapause. 相似文献